Just as an educated guess, what percentage of the adult population do you think could actually qualify or be considered bright or very intelligent?

[Anonymous]

1-5 percent

6-10 percent

11-15 percent

16-20 percent

21-25 percent

26-30 percent

[IslaTheWitch]

roughly 2% of the adult population is over 115 score, with 100 as an average... over 135 is 1%, and those people are considered very intelligent...

being bright is not really related only to intelligence... it's a set of abilities that allow changing perspectives and noticing things before others do...

[LeatherDame]

This is basically how IQ spreads work, average is 100, mentally handicapped is <70 and gifted is >130. About 10% of people are above 130 and about the same are below 70 (aka it’s a classic bell curve distribution).


So 80% of people have average intelligence… more or less. If average is IQ 70-130.

[LeatherDame]

Whoops mistyped that:

Mentally gifted is 130+
Mentally handicapped is <70
Average/mean is 100

[exitseven]

1% tops.